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McNealy took over. John Gage—Sun’s fifth employee—coined the phrase “Network is the computer,” which became a company mantra, 25 years before the concept of the cloud was even discussed.



In 1990, Patrick Naughton—a 25-year-old engineer who had only been with the company for 3 years—decided to accept an offer from NeXT—Steve Jobs' new startup—frustrated by the politicking and complex processes typical of a publicly traded company, which had transformed Sun into a dinosaur.

Naughton used to play hockey with Scott McNealy and other employees uae consumer email list so one day over beers, he decided to personally tell McNealy of his decision. McNealy asked him for an unusual favor: to write an email outlining all the problems he had encountered and how he would solve them if he could do whatever he wanted. Naughton spent several hours writing a long, brutally honest email, which he sent the next morning.

McNealy's reply contained only seven words: "Hold on. I'll take care of this," and he forwarded the email to the company's top executives who then forwarded it to various managers. The general response was "that's exactly what I thought, but I didn't know how to say it." At Sun, a storm had just broken out.